“Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.”

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" I don't think I've ever met a Liberal whom I didn't like on a personal basis. That said, if your goal is to change minds and influence people, it's probably not a good idea to begin by asserting that virtually all elected Democrats are liars. But what the hell."

Thursday, December 15, 2005

"The answer is: 'Black history is American history.'"

Do you know how good it
makes me feel to know that there is a movie star, whose work I love, and
who, when he feels compelled to say something political, does not
reveal himself as a complete airhead? I'm speaking about
Morgan Freeman, who most recently narrated the March of the Penguins I
raved about. Listen to him on the subject of Black History Month
(which seems to come around every 30 days).

"You're going to relegate my history to a month?" the 68-year-old actor
says in an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" to air Sunday (7 p.m. EST).
"I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history."

Freeman notes there is no "white history month," and says the only way to get rid of racism is to "stop talking about it."

The actor says he believes the labels "black" and "white" are an obstacle to beating racism.

"I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man," Freeman says.

I agree with him that the manner in which way we talk about racism perpetuates it. I went to a high school in the 50's that drew its students city-wide based on scholastic merit. I now remember that in spite of the bigotry still very prevalent at the time that we really didn't think of our few black classmates as "colored" or "Negro," but that they were just another one of the guys, because they spoke well and shared the school values of excellence, decency, hard work and fair play. Today they would be slammed by the race pimps as "acting white."